Event
Oppression of Midian (7 years)
Israel is delivered into the hand of Midian seven years; Midianites, Amalekites and the children of the east devour the land (Judg 6:1–6).
Sort year1258/1251 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)
Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1258 BC (no higher-tier year available). Jordan (secondary display) never sets the sort.
Description
Judges-period record added from James B. Jordan's chronology (secondary display) with Ussher, Jones and, where available, CFAH-1 Table 1 dates for sorting. Jordan treats the judgeships as partly overlapping regional sequences (North / Centre / South) fitted to the 480 years of 1 Kgs 6:1 and the 300 years of Judg 11:26.
Scripture
Chronologies
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference |
| Ussher-Jones | 7 years of "MIDIAN", 1258 BC to 1251 BC ("1251 BC GIDEON'S 300 WIN") Precision: year |
1258/1251 BC | Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year |
| Ussher | 2752d AM, 1252 BC ("This fourth oppression lasted 7 years") Precision: year |
1252 BC AM 2752 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §354 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Differs from sort year by 6 yrs |
| Jordan secondary | "2766 - End of Barak's Northern peace and Ehud's Central peace, beginning of Midianite oppression (Jud. 6:1)." Precision: year |
AM 2766–2773 | Jordan, From Creation to Solomon (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2, Biblical Horizons, Oct. 2001), ch. 11 "The Era of the Judges and the Reign of Saul", p. 52 (opens in a new tab) 2001 revision. Jordan's 1991 list (BC 3:8) has an earlier year; see the second Jordan entry. |
| Jordan secondary | "2740 - End of Barak's Northern peace and Ehud's Central peace, beginning of Midianite oppression (Jud. 6:1). We can be certain of this date as a result of counting backwards from Judges 11:16 and 1 Kings 6:1." Precision: year |
AM 2740–2747 | Jordan, "Chronology and Kings (II)," Biblical Chronology 3:8 (August 1991), section "The Judges", summary list (opens in a new tab) 1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg 11:26 when Ammon took the villages, AM 2860, not at Jephthah's victory). Text: "beginning in A.M. 2740, or 180 years after the division of the land in 2560." ("Judges 11:16" is Jordan's reference as printed; the 300-year verse is Judg 11:26.) BC 5:2: "The Midianites oppressed the North beginning in 2740". |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | 7 year oppression of Midian (6:1) 2766 AM Precision: year |
AM 2766 | Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 8, chart "Year of the World: From the Judges to King Saul (Chronology from James Jordan)" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2766. |
| Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) | 7 years Precision: unknown |
— | Judg 6:1 (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1258 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1252 BC (Ussher).
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2740 (Jordan); AM 2752 (Ussher); AM 2766 (Jordan, Jordan (compilation)).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
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Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Judg.6.1-Judg.6.6 public-domain
- Chart No. 4: Judges to the First 3 Kings (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- Chronology and Kings (II) (Biblical Chronology 3:8, August 1991) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- From Creation to Solomon (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
- Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.